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Linux News for Mar 22, 2002

Trademark Trouble: Asterix versus MobiliX
(Mar 22, 2002, 23:30)
Tux, it seems, just can't get a break. Another round of legal
blows has been traded in the German trademark infringment suit
against one German open source company who's name is alledgedly too
similar to that of a comic book character's.

ZDNet: Mandrake Linux Policy Angers Members(Mar 22, 2002, 21:05)
"Days after MandrakeSoft launched a controversial "club" to
boost its bottom line, the Linux distributor has angered many in
its user community by changing the rules of the Mandrake Club
program..."

Red Hat Security Advisory: PHP(Mar 22, 2002, 20:51)
"Updated PHP packages are available to fix vulnerabilities in
the functions that parse multipart MIME data, which are used when
uploading files through forms."

Linux Journal: Seal It or Hack It?(Mar 22, 2002, 19:00)
"Should embedded Linux devices be 'sealed' or 'hackable'? One
reader says the developer or manufacturer 'needs to be able to
control products. The following is a response by Sean Lamont to
Seth Schoen's letter suggesting that the customer should have
control over embedded Linux devices..."

Wired.com: Anti-Copy Bill Hits D.C.(Mar 22, 2002, 17:30)
Formerly known as the SSSCA, this new bill, if passed, will have
strong implications on the environments that Linux works with, both
in the computer and embedded device arenas.

Open for Business: Getting Started with GNU Privacy Guard(Mar 22, 2002, 14:30)
"This how-to hopes to remove some of these barriers for those
interested in using the open source Gnu Privacy Guard tool ("GPG"
or "GnuPG" for short), which is a popular PGP-compatible encryption
software package..."

Linux and Main: Ximian GNOME on a Low-Resources Machine
(Mar 22, 2002, 13:02)
"It's true that we have all kinds of nifty desktops and
applications. This is great. It is also, sadly, true that as the
capacity of hardware has increased -- bigger drives, more memory,
faster processors, an actual reduction in price -- coding has
fallen slack..."

IT-Director: Linux Gets Even More Friendly
(Mar 22, 2002, 10:54)
"The one area of news that, to a degree at least, derives from a
subtly different background is to be found in developments arising
from the open source community. Latest to make the news are new
releases of the well-known SuSE and MandrakeSoft Linux
distributions..."

LinuxDevices.com: Linux Scheduler Latency(Mar 22, 2002, 01:00)
"In this whitepaper on Linux Scheduler Latency, Clark Williams
of Red Hat Inc. compares the performance of two popular ways to
improve kernel Linux preemption latency -- the preemption patch
pioneered by MontaVista and the low-latency patch pioneered by Ingo
Molnar -- and discovers that the best approach might be a
combination of both."